Poem

The Return

Title	The Return
Author	John Hewitt

Instances of Publication

A published appearance of this poem.

Collection/Anthology	Year of Publication	Medium	View Details
The Collected Poems of John Hewitt	1991	Print Collection	View Details

Publication Instance Details #2633

Collection/Anthology Details

Collection/Anthology	The Collected Poems of John Hewitt
Date of Publication	1991
Publisher	Blackstaff Press (Ireland)
Page Number(s)	13-19

Publication Overview

Translation	Is Multilingual	Explicit Irish Context?	Ekphrasis	Has Paratext?	Reference to News, Media or Technology
No	No	Yes	No	No	No

Details

Human Rights Issues	War
War / Genocide Referenced	War: First World War War: Second World War
Irish Context	Specific Irish place or place-name mentioned WW I (Ireland) WW II (Ireland)
Languages	English
Genre	Short Lyric
Medium	Print Collection
Notes	This poem is part of the privately published Compass: Two Poems (1944). This section, ‘The Return’ is dated 1935, suggesting both WW1 and WW2. It contrasts a holiday on Rathlin island with the return to local riots in Belfast and a trip to Bristol. In A North Light, Hewitt also mentions that these trips coincided with Mussolini’s invasion of Abyssinia which pointed ‘toward the inevitable’.

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